与明代科举文献相比, 清代进士科举文献的现存总量更大且类型也更为丰富, 但存在馆藏地分散、信息公开程度低、获取难度大、利用率低等问题, 本文基于“清代进士科举文献地理分布数据库”统计的实时数据, 对所统计的671种清代会试、殿试文献的科年分布、馆藏地、文献类型、流转情况进行了整体研究和分析, 以期能够较为完整的呈现出清代进士科举文献的全局影像, 为科举研究同仁提供些许帮助。通过统计分析, 清代进士科举文献的种类达19种, 其中会试同年齿录这一类型存世量高达206种; 分布在海内外的44家机构, 其中中国33家机构收藏550种, 收藏最多的是中国第一历史档案馆138种, 海外11家机构收藏120种。通过整理汇总, 清代9朝112科年中, 雍正朝、乾隆朝的进士文献缺失最多。

Compared with the imperial examination documents of the Ming Dynasty, the existing total amount of the documents of metropolitan imperial examination in the Qing Dynasty is much larger and the categories are more abundant. But there also remain the problems of collection dispersion, low degree of information disclosure, difficulties in obtainability and low utilization rate. This paper, based on the real time data of the Geographical Distribution Database of Metropolitan Imperial Examination Documents in the Qing Dynasty, makes a holistic research and analysis on the year distribution, collection locations, document categories and circulation of 671 kinds of metropolitan and palace examination papers in the Qing Dynasty, intending to help the research colleagues on the imperial examination with an overall impression of metropolitan examination documents in the Qing Dynasty. Through statistical analysis, there are 19 kinds of imperial metropolitan examination documents in the Qing Dynasty. The existence of the published lists of names only is as high as 206 volumes which are collected by 44 domestic and overseas institutes. 550 volumes of documents are collected by 33 national institutes. The First Historical Archives of China takes 138 volumes and another 11 overseas institutes take 120 volumes. By collating and summarizing, during the period of 112 years of 9 emperors in the Qing Dynasty, the most missing documents of metropolitan examinations were those in the periods of Yongzheng and Qianlong.